This is more of a little walkthrough, really just some screenshots of progress. Someone asked for this so hopefully it will be helpful to someone! I have a very basic process most of the time, really just a lot of painting :"D but hope its helpful a little bit!

ummmm can u do a tutorial for those who kinda paint like crap? lol look at my page and then you will see what true crap looks like ^^ i use paint tool sai since i cant afford photoshop and im not that familiar with it like i am with sai.

thank you! it was a great help, but I have some questions! Witch colour did you use when you were going to shad? under or over the colour layer? and layer %? sorry my questions you're an amazing artist!

haha I get what you mean. For me the sketch starts looking great, color is decent, and by the end of all those hours it looks completely off from what was intended Now it takes forever for me to complete one piece! ^^"

This is pretty enlightening. :u I want to try your technique for shading; I usually just leave the colored layer and do some really quick shading over the top with multiply. This ought to take longer but I think it looks a lot prettier the way you do it. :>